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Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. -- Henry David Thoreau
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. -- Warren Buffett
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. -- Jennifer Jones
Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song. -- Janna Levin
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. -- Alma Gluck
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all. -- Brian Tracy
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it. -- Henri Matisse
I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today. -- Jinato Hu
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology. -- Emily Greene Balch
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. -- Gustave Flaubert
Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is on the most important characteristic, which is trust. -- Howard Schultz
Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war. -- Pierre Curie
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups. -- Jane Goodall
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples. -- Marianne Williamson
Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick. -- Jeremy Paxton
America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts. -- Laurie Helgoe
From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters. -- Sharon Salzberg
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to. -- Martha Beck
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God. -- Brennan Manning
The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.' -- Eric Schmidt
The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence. -- Gary Zukav
Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice. -- Edward Everett
An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. -- Samuel Johnson
Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity. -- Confucius
Futility is the defining characteristic of life. -- Stephen R. Donaldson
All art has this characteristic-it unites people. -- Leo Tolstoy
Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner. -- Noel Carroll
stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French. -- Gertrude Atherton
The crowning characteristic of love is always loyalty -- Jeffrey R. Holland
Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit. -- Robertson Davies
Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders. -- Catherine Ponder
Realization that is beyond characteristic or designation is marvelous! -- Longchenpa
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. -- Henry Fielding
I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic. -- Emma Bonino
The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Worry is characteristic of the heathen, not the Christian. -- Charles R. Swindoll
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals. -- Agnes Repplier
Trust is probably the intangible, and cultivated of all characteristic. -- Timothy Mason
Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player -- Siegbert Tarrasch
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. -- Kingsley Amis
Which is the most universal human characteristic: Fear or laziness? -- Louis Mackey
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence -- Kingsley Amis
Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch. -- Joseph Goebbels
It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. -- Harriet Martineau
Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity. -- Ambrose Bierce
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. -- Arnold Bennett
Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic. -- E. M. Delafield
Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history. -- James W. Loewen
The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla. -- Emile M. Cioran
The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth. -- Abraham Maslow
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Entanglement is not one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics. -- Erwin Schrodinger
The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights... -- Ayn Rand
Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights. -- Dmitri Mendeleev
Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop. -- Charlotte Eriksson
Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline. -- Martin Amis
It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts, -- Louis Althusser
Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession. -- Kenneth Coutts-Smith
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I'm a typically lazy person. It is sort of characteristic of actors. -- Liev Schreiber
Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice. -- Richard Harris
Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
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Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle. -- Jean Driscoll
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic. -- Oscar Wilde
What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes. -- Sigmund Freud
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. -- Gaston Bachelard
The devil's characteristic has been to originate sin and tempt others to sin -- Wayne Grudem
It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works. -- Isaac Asimov
Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery. -- C. S. Lewis
The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality. -- Harvey Cox
Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope. -- James Dyson
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence. -- Robert J. Shiller
If there is one characteristic that signals creativity in business, it might be follow-through. -- Michael Ray
I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you? -- Edward Heath
Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing. -- Edward T. Hall
It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity. -- David Attenborough
He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons. -- Vasily Grossman
One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame. -- Thomas Gray
The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry. -- Arthur Brisbane
That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps. -- F. E. Adcock
It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar. -- Seneca the Younger
There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American. -- Mark Twain
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men -- George S. Patton
Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people. -- Elizabeth Taylor
The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust -- Brennan Manning
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features. -- Roman Jakobson
The most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wilderness. -- John Muir
Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution. -- Tony Attwood
The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds. -- Edgar Wilson Nye
Procrastination in the beginning and precipitation towards the conclusion is the characteristic of such bodies. -- James Madison
Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers. -- Brian Tracy
Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Creativity is an amazing human characteristic, which is more connected with curiosity than with knowledge. -- Eraldo Banovac
It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured. -- Tacitus
Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes. -- Gerrit Noordzij
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. -- Herbert Read
Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic. -- Douglas Hurd
Unteachable from infancy to tomb - There is the first and main characteristic of mankind. -- Winston Churchill
You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them -- Zig Ziglar
Cinema's characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind. -- Satyajit Ray
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. -- Charles Sanders Peirce
If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness. -- Albert Bandura
Cubans joke and satirize everything that life gives them, and I think that's a positive characteristic. -- Fernando Perez
The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work. -- George Mikes
Great leaders have an ability, a characteristic of analyzing very good talent, and empowering that talent. -- Rick Perry
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts. -- Heywood Broun
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages. -- Steve Wozniak
Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world. -- Clare Morrall
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. -- Kenneth Lee Pike
Humility is the key characteristic of a worship leader. Actually, the key for any great leader. -- Chris Tomlin

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